Important Note: The Center for Excellence in Teaching does not administer teaching assistant positions at USC. If you are looking for a TA position, please contact your department's graduate student services coordniator for more information.

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CET TAFs are encouraged to drive CET programming that deals directly with the learning and teaching issues facing teaching assistants and undergraduate education at USC.

The CET TA Wiki is and ongoing resource developed by CET Teaching Assistant Fellows that contains vast amounts of information, views and personal experience regarding all facets of being a TA from classroom management to interacting with the professor and students to teaching techniques and more.

TA Training is MANDATORY for all new TAs at USC. CET provides a one-day training program biannually before each semester utilized by schools and departments that do not provide an in-house training program. Please consult your department to find out if you need to attend CET's TA Training sessions.

The International Teaching Assistant (ITA) Language Institute is a week-long collaborative program in early August between CET and Dornsife's American Language Institute (ALI). Designed to alculturate and welcome new ITAs to USC, the Institute is provided at no cost to the students. The ITA Language Institute does NOT replace TA Training.

The Teaching Assistant Fellows (TA Fellows) program for outstanding USC TAs is a two-fold program which:

Primarily produces TA training materials used to enhance TA instruction across the university. TA Fellows work collaboratively combining their personal teaching expertise with research on best practices to create cutting-edge materials to be used by teaching assistants.

Secondarily the TA Fellows program provides professional development for the TA Fellows through monthly workshops.

TA Fellows receive advanced training in the modern theory and practice of pedagogy from CET Fellows and other experts at USC.